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- 2018
- TV-MA
- Starz
- 2018
- TV-MA
- Starz
Summary Estranged sisters Emma (Mishel Prada) and Lyn (Melissa Barrera) return to the Eastside of Los Angeles after the death of their mother, where they must deal with the family business and discover secrets about their mother in the half-hour drama.
Created By: Tanya Saracho
- 2018
- TV-MA
- Starz
- 2018
- TV-MA
- Starz
Vida
Season 1 Premiere: May 6, 2018
78
6.3
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Summary Estranged sisters Emma (Mishel Prada) and Lyn (Melissa Barrera) return to the Eastside of Los Angeles after the death of their mother, where they must deal with the family business and discover secrets about their mother in the half-hour drama.
Created By: Tanya Saracho
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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86% Positive
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14% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
78
86% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
14% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Excellent. ... It’s the rare show about family, identity and community that captures the complexity of how we perceive ourselves and others. ... The same insights help to power its pleasures—of which there are many. Despite the show’s seriousness, and the grief that forms its emotional core, Saracho and her writers season each script with moments of beauty and bliss. ... Wise, empathetic, exhilarating show.
“Vida” is an important series — for representation, for diversity, for women — but it’s also an entrancing and enjoyable bar story. Whatever you’re looking for, “Vida” has it.
The characters on Vida often behave stupidly, but this is a smart, smart show, one that looks at culture on high and low levels, from debates about the flavor and significance of Valentina hot sauce to a point-by-point breakdown of Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird.
At typical drama length, this series might have been bogged down with plot digressions and expansions. As it is, it sometimes slips into melodrama, but the lapses pass quickly. Life may be too short, but Vida is just right.
Despite the hardly surprising plotting, Vida excels as a series with a notably different look and feel.
The third season, while enjoyable, feels like a bookend on a story that wasn’t ready to end. Even though it ends with a slightly forced button, “Vida” is never buttoned up.
Alas, Saracho, whose previous credits include “How To Get Away With Murder” and Lifetime’s Latina-driven “Devious Maids,” doesn’t offer much new or surprising about what motivates people who find themselves in such predicaments. The characters’ personal basic troubles and quandaries are simply stretched out and reiterated, and rarely affectingly probed.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 42 User Ratings
6.3
57% Positive
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19% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 42 User Ratings
6.3
57% Positive
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
19% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
24% Negative
10 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Big Beach
Initial Release Date: May 6, 2018
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Imagen Foundation Awards
• 1 Win & 10 Nominations
Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)
• 2 Nominations
GLAAD Media Awards
• 2 Nominations
